Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Mapping the brain is a daunting task because it contains a huge ...

Fruit fly brains are smaller than a poppy seed, but that doesn't mean they aren't complex. For the first time, researchers have published a complete diagram of 50 million connections in an adult fruit ...

Mapping the fruit fly larva connectome was no easy feat. It required a transatlantic tour de force. Marta Zlatic, a neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge and coauthor of the study, previously ...

In many ways, the brain is uncharted territory akin to the deepest parts of the ocean and farthest reaches of outer space. As with any new frontier, navigating it requires a map. Researchers have ...

Scientists have completed the most detailed map ever made of an adult animal brain by charting every cell and connection in a fruit fly's brain (the fly brain map is ridiculously cool-looking).

San Francisco startup Eon Systems claims that it has created the first digital simulation of a fruit fly brain that can control a virtual body and produce recognizable behaviors.… We'd call this "huge ...